sisutag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-169662018-09-12T09:40:00-04:00Beauty in unexpected placesTypePad"A revival of tribalism in thinking and politics"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-118452932018-09-12T09:40:00-04:002018-09-12T14:40:54-04:00"Many people bitterly resent it when members of the other group hold power," notes former liberal mugged by reality Roger L. Simon: Members of the knowledge class tend to think that Republican leaders are simple-minded, uncultured morons. Members of the...Sissy WillisPresent at the re-creationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b7c948b398970b2018-01-24T16:23:08-05:002018-01-24T16:38:59-05:00Twitter buddy Pete602 caught old-style pols Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Diane Feinstein in the social-media headlights of a newly empowered electorate this morning: If Schiff and Feinstein want to see "Russian bots" they can look out the window. We...Sissy WillisOne person's assimilation is another's appropriationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b7c9036bf8970b2017-06-17T19:18:10-04:002017-08-07T11:09:41-04:00"Indigenous leaders from across the world requested that the UN outlaw cultural appropriation." Elizabeth Warren aka Fauxcahontas was unavailable for comment. "Mosaicist vs assimilationist: On the multiculti side, there were smug, self-congratulatory sermons scolding melting-pot types like ourselves for xenophobic/racist...Sissy Willis"A young ballsy girl in pigtails showed why the cowards of ISIS will never win"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b8d289a0bc970c2017-06-05T13:30:44-04:002017-06-05T13:57:23-04:00Dear @ArianaGrande, I'm sorry. Love Piers. https://t.co/BNRQgXhmj6 pic.twitter.com/A3Hkr88mXx — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2017 "Last night you showed true grit and also why the cowards of ISIS will never win," writes British TV provocateur Piers Morgan in an open...Sissy WillisPigs — and fracking — are a girl's best friendtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b7c8faf4d0970b2017-05-22T18:13:47-04:002017-05-23T08:08:26-04:00"European ingenuity! Can't get access 2 a gun b/c of strict laws, buy yourself an attack pig. "Trump in Saudi tells me something: We lost the argument. But who rewired Trump?" tweets anti-cultural-jihad warrior Diana West this afternoon. We're with...Sissy Willis“Just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no f***ing idea what’s going on”*tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b7c8f17100970b2017-04-25T15:54:14-04:002017-05-19T06:54:32-04:00"In some profound way, the election made clear, the national media just doesn’t get the nation it purportedly covers," writes a somewhat bemused Jack Shafer at Politico in "The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think." The “media bubble” trope...Sissy Willis"One thing people don’t quite get is that she is a living, breathing folk hero for millions of people around the country”tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201bb0984f460970d2017-03-18T17:26:02-04:002017-03-18T17:25:47-04:00"Horrified critics of the president are often surprised to find that, in person, it’s very difficult to dislike Conway," writes Olivia Nuzzi in "Kellyanne Conway Is a Star: Not your star, perhaps. But that’s the point," New York Magazine's cover...Sissy WillisHallmark Movies foretold Trump Nationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b7c8cf6fd4970b2017-01-28T18:02:35-05:002017-02-02T15:37:59-05:00We know this in our soul. That thing they call "everyday Americans" LOVE the HallmarkChannel movies. Especially women. Beautiful parents who love their kids and their country. Heroine always ends up winning her man. Corny & romantic. What's not to...Sissy WillisHas Typepad jumped the shark?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b7c89767d7970b2016-09-26T17:44:51-04:002016-09-28T08:53:00-04:00From our March 3, 2009 post "Tiny performs Meowzart": Tiny inhabits the role of Queen of the Night singing "Der Hölle Rache" in Meowzart's The Magic Twig (German Die Zaubersweig). Listen here. Just checking to see if Typepad is as...Sissy WillisMugged by reality: "The thought police are the democrats" says former democrattag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b8d2204ca9970c2016-09-23T16:51:42-04:002016-09-25T13:20:57-04:00Has this demonic image of President Obama been wiped — What, like with a cloth or something? — from the internet's memory bank? We ask because a Google search for "Obama crazed look" images rendered scant results, mostly a recurring...Sissy Willis